Sunday, October 3, 2010

MessageLabs Intelligence Report: September 2010

MessageLabs has published their Intelligence report that sums up the latest threat trends for September 2010.

Report highlights:
• Spam – 91.9% in September (a decrease of 0.3 percentage points since August)
• Viruses – One in 218.7 emails in September contained malware (an increase of 0.15 percentage points since August)
• Phishing – One in 382.0 emails comprised a phishing attack (a decrease of 0.01 percentage points since August)
• Malicious websites – 2,997 websites blocked per day (a decrease of 10.8% since August)
• 33.6% of all malicious domains blocked were new in September (a decrease of 0.7 percentage points since August)
• 21.8% of all web-based malware blocked was new in September (an increase of 8.9 percentage points since August)
• Understanding and Managing a Mobile Workforce – Malicious Threats and Policy Controls
• Blog Update: “Here you have” mass-mailing worm

The report can be viewed here.

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